Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Patients’ Perceptions of Feeling Known by Their Nurses Scale

Somerville, Jacqueline

doi:10.20467/1091-5710.13.4.38

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“…This implies a change in vision, in which the focus is the individual and his/her personal journey of cancer and not the disease. We propose to make regular use of tools such as the "Perception of Feeling Known by Their Nurses Scale" in long-term hospitalisations in order to evaluate our knowledge of people with advanced-stage cancer (Somerville, 2009).…”

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The experience of living with advanced-stage cancer: a thematic synthesis of the literature

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The aim of the study was to understand the experience of people living with advanced-stage cancer through literature. The search included The Cochrane Library, PubMed, PsycInfo, CINAHL and Cuiden. Thirteen studies were included. A qualitative meta-synthesis was conducted. One thread emerged from the thematic synthesis: the desire to live as normally as possible, despite being aware of the proximity of death. Three themes also emerged: "a process that is unique" with its four sub-themes; "support network" and "health context," each of them having two sub-themes. This study concludes that living with advanced-stage cancer is a unique and complex process which has both positive and negative aspects. The review provides a comprehensive view of the experience, which considers the importance of the support network and the health context in which the person lives. In this study, "normalcy" is the adjustment to the new reality and living as closely as possible to the way one lived before the disease, while developing a new relationship with being finite and death. A better understanding of the experience of living with advanced-stage cancer will help health professionals to identify the needs of the patients in order to plan individual, high-quality care.

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“…Capturing patients' perceptions solely through quantitative methodologies limits the ability to thoroughly explore the complexity and limitations of a specific phenomenon (Polit & Beck, 2012). Different yet complementary types of data were collected on the same topic, thus allowing for a more complete understanding of the phenomenon (Somerville, 2009a).…”

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“…The phenomenon of knowing has thematically been demonstrated in literature, particularly through qualitative methods of research Henneman et al, 2010;. However, there is limited research specifically exploring the patients' perception of feeling known by their nurses, with only the one quantitative study conducted to psychometrically validate the instrument Patients' Perception of Feeling Known by Their Nurses Scale (Somerville, 2009a). In order to further explore the phenomena of feeling known from the patients'…”

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“…The importance and high level priority nursing places on knowing the patient has been well established; however, limited research has been conducted exploring the patients' perception of feeling known by their nurse. Somerville (2009a) (Newman, 1994) and focuses on "the patient experience, as well as the experience of being recognized as a unique human being, who feels safe and experiences a meaningful, personal connection to their nurse that facilitates and empowers the patient to participate in their care" (Somerville, 2009a, p. 2). The scale incorporates four themes which describe the patients' perceptions of feeling known by their nurses: 1) experienced being recognized by their nurses as a unique human being, 2) felt safe, 3) experienced a meaningful, personal connection with their nurses, and 4) felt empowered by their nurses to participate in their care (Somerville, 2009a Through knowing the patient, the nurse acquires insight into the history and experiences of the patient, creating opportunity to accept the patient as unique (Somerville, 2009a).…”

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“…Connectedness or personal connection can be defined as a perceived shared and meaningful relationship with another person, or a mutual and shared partnership between the nurse and the patient (Phillips-Salimi, Hasse, & Kooken, 2012;Somerville, 2009a).…”

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Patients' Perception of Feeling Known by Their Nurses and the Nurse Practice Envrionment

Mollon

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Healthcare leaders have a responsibility to understand the connection between healthy practice environments and patients' perceptions of care. The purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between the nurses' perception of the practice environment and the patients' perception of feeling known by their nurses. This descriptive, correlational study used quantitative and qualitative methodology. A convenience sample of 123 patients, on six patient care units, completed the Patients' Perception of Feeling Known by their Nurses Scale and a supplemental survey designed to determine the content validity of the Patients' Perception of Feeling Known by their Nurses Scale. To measure registered nurse satisfaction at the unit level (N=6), 290 nurses completed the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators RN Survey with Job Satisfaction Scales-R. Patients' perception of feeling known by their nurses was high with a mean of 3.5 out of 4.0. No significant differences between levels of care were found. Nurses had favorable satisfaction at 4.37 on a 6 point scale. Nesting patients within individual nursing units, mixed linear modeling for the relationship between job satisfaction and patients' perception of feeling known was non-significant (t(4) =-1.085, p > .05). The supplemental survey offered content validation on the subscales of "Experienced a meaningful, personal connection with their nurses" and "Felt empowered by their nurses to participate in their care." For the subscale "Felt safe" a focus on safety measures was revealed as a new category. The fourth subscale, "Experienced being recognized as a unique human being," suggests nursing has opportunity for improvement in the more subjective aspects of patient care.

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Measuring Youth Perceptions of Being Known and Loved and Positive Youth Development: Cross-National Findings from Rwanda and El Salvador

Tirrell

Dowling

Kibbedi³

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Child Youth Care Forum

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Background Dynamic, relational developmental systems-based models of development emphasize that developmentally-nurturant youth-adult relationships elicit in youth perceptions of being known and loved. Although such perceptions are foundations of positive youth development (PYD), such measures do not exist. Objective We sought to create a theoretically-predicated measure of youth perceptions of being known and loved by capitalizing on data sets in two countries (Rwanda and El Salvador) wherein a multi-national study of PYD was being conducted by Compassion International (CI). Method With Rwanda data ( n = 1,204, M age = 11.84, 50% CI-supported), exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses enabled refining the measure for robustness and parsimony. Measures of intentional self-regulation, hopeful future expectations, transcendence, and contribution were used for validation of the known and loved measure within the nomological net of constructs proposed in the Lerner and Lerner PYD model. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the use of the model within the El Salvador data set ( n = 1,205, M age = 13.03, 51% CI-supported). Results Robust psychometric properties were established in both national settings. Measurement invariance was found across age, gender, urban–rural location, CI-enrollment status, and nations, and involved both mean differences and correlations among latent factors. Conclusions The results provide evidence for a theory-predicated measure of youth perceptions of being known and loved and that scores for this construct covary within a nomological net specified in the Lerner and Lerner model of PYD. These findings serve international development organizations seeking theory-predicated measures for use in evaluating PYD programs in low- and middle-income countries. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10566-022-09725-6.

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Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Patients’ Perceptions of Feeling Known by Their Nurses Scale

Cited by 12 publications

References 50 publications

The experience of living with advanced-stage cancer: a thematic synthesis of the literature

The experience of living with advanced-stage cancer: a thematic synthesis of the literature

Patients' Perception of Feeling Known by Their Nurses and the Nurse Practice Envrionment

Measuring Youth Perceptions of Being Known and Loved and Positive Youth Development: Cross-National Findings from Rwanda and El Salvador

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